Discipline of Philosophy

Dr CS Westman

College of Human Sciences
School of Humanities
Department: Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology
Senior Lecturer
E-mail: ewestmcs@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • PhD Philosophy (Stellenbosch University) (2019)
  • MA Philosophy (University of Johannesburg) (2010)
  • BA Honours (Philosophy) (University of Johannesburg) (2008)
  • BA Journalism (University of Johannesburg) (2006)

Currently teaching

  • PLS2602 – African Ethics and Politics
  • PLS2601 – Critical Reasoning
  • HRPLS81 - Philosophy Research Report

Fields of academic interests

  • Feminist Philosophy
  • African Philosophy
  • Legal Philosophy
  • Human Rights
  • LGBTQI+ Rights
  • Feminist Phenomenology
  • Feminist Philosophy of Education

Field of Specialisation

  • Feminist Philosophy
  • Sexual Violence in war and post-colonial contexts

Journal articles

Westman, CS. 2023. Strategies, Symbols, and Subjectivities: The Continuities Between War Rape and Lesbo-Phobic Rape. Hypatia, 39(2).

Westman, CS. 2023. Challenging Heteropatriarchy: The Contribution of Visual Activism to a South African Lesbian Standpoint. Social and Health Sciences Journal: Special Issue – Unsettling Knowledge Production on Gendered and Sexual Violence.

Westman, CS. 2022. Lessons from War Rape: How Can War Rape Help Understandings of Rape in South Africa? Gender Questions, 10 (2). https://doi.org/10.25159/2412-8457/10220

Westman, CS. 2022. Precarity, Ungrievability, and Thinking Beyond the Law: A Framework for Understanding the Position of LGB Individuals in South Africa. Acta Academica, 54(1): 1 – 20. https://doi.org/10.18820/24150479/aa54i1/1

Simpson, Z., Bester, J., Swanepoel, D. and Westman, C. (2018). Ethical Demand and First Year Civil Engineering Study: Applying Virtue Ethics. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, 144 (3): 05018006-1 - 05018006-7

Paper presentations

University of the Free State: Faculty of Law Research Seminar 2022

 The Right to Voluntary Sterilisation for Women in South Africa

 October 2022

SolBridge Liberal Arts and Technology Symposium: Humane Futures

 The Role of the Media in Upholding Problematic Ideologies.

 July 2022

University of the Free State: Faculty of Law Research Seminar 2021

Precarity, Ungrievability, and Thinking Beyond the Law

October 2021

Queer Visualities 2019 (University of the North-West)

The Role of Visual Activism in the Emergence of a Lesbian Standpoint

February 2019

Philosophical Spring Colloquium 2017 (University of Johannesburg)

Contextualising Intersex Normalising Surgery

September 2017

PSSA 2017 (Philosophical Society of Southern Africa – Rhodes University)

The Sexual Contract in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Convergence of Traditional and

Liberal Values

January 2017

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Free State Centre for Human Rights, University of the Free State (2021 – 2024)